Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Nikita Khrushchev suddenly discovered urgent business in Kiev, the Kremlin was stiffly correct about it all, sent out its chief dialectician, lanky, austere Mikhail Suslov, to meet the visitors. Head of Peking's seven-man mission: Teng Hsiao-ping, secretary-general of the Chinese Communist Party. As Teng stepped out of a Soviet TU-104 jet, a crowd of Chinese residents in Moscow, watched closely by a Chinese army colonel, sent up a cheer...
...Teng exchanged toasts, but that was just routine. For under the pose of politeness, the Sino-Soviet quarrel was becoming ruder than ever. Without explanation, Peking suddenly withdrew its two entries from an international film festival about to open in Moscow. And just before the party leaders met, Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung exchanged a fresh round of insults over Red China's 25-point denunciation of Soviet policy. Although the Soviets themselves refused to publish it, Moscow complained last week that Chinese agents handed out the document in cities from Odessa to Leningrad and even in the atomic...
...prestige and personality he is a match for Suslov, 60, who for years was Stalin's ideological mouthpiece, and now supplies Khrushchev with the theoretical justifications for political strategy...
...according to Marxist theory, capitalism should be in its death throes, the working class in utter misery, and the former colonial peoples well on the road to Communism. Instead, capitalism is thriving, Western workers are going middleclass, and the ex-colonies tend toward Socialism but hardly toward Communism. Nikita Khrushchev favors changing the theory to fit these facts more closely; he is, as Peking accurately charges, a revisionist. Mao Tse-tung favors changing the facts to fit the theory; he is, as Moscow says, a dogmatist...
...both are also realists, motivated by different national interests, different economies, and different histories. Khrushchev, the ruler of a nation that has at last begun to gain some material rewards, argues that people are not interested in war or revolution but in peaceful prosperity, and that rocket-rattling will only drive millions away from Communism. Mao, ruler of a country with a lot less to lose, master of a peasantry whose appetites demand a bowl of rice, not a TV set or a car, replies in effect that he is not running a popularity contest with the West. Power cannot...